Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning (or when we receive 200 submissions, whichever is sooner) - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 13th September: from Friday afternoon you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch201

If a track you submitted does not appear in this list, it’s probably because another of your tracks appeared in our Fresh Faves or on the BBC Music Introducing Mixtape during the last three months — we ask that artists featured on either wait three months before resubmitting to give others a chance. We also don’t accept short previews or SoundCloud GO tracks that can only be heard as 30 second previews, and tracks made private after submission, which cannot be included in playlists. You will be able to resubmit the track in future. Tracks that have been previously submitted and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 417

Includes all tracks selected for the weekly Eclectic Picks Playlist on Freshonthenet in 2021.  

Part 1 - https://soundcloud.com/signalcommittee/sets/eclectic-picks-2021-1
Part 2 - https://soundcloud.com/signalcommittee/sets/eclectic-picks-2021-part-2-of

ECLECTIC PICKS - 2021 (Part 1) (Freshonthenet)

Wrong Way

Parasol Shopping

Written, recorded, upload today Monday 13 September, on my day off.
Don't worry, I am mostly happy x.

I Wish I Could Be Happy (Instrumental)

Music, Production & Video Edit - The Zeropoint Projects
Lyrics & Vocals - Lohrd Snohw

Lohrd Snohw 
Twitter - @lohrdsnohw
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/7ISnfDHnLM1dSdkzsnuzmi


The Zeropoint Projects 
Twitter - @zeropointprojx
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/2R6Z7PtT1bNyB0rCjnqten
Bandcamp - https://thezeropointprojects.bandcamp.com/

Official Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Enk8cWbTE

Available on all major streaming sites as of October 2nd

Resist

Resist - Feat. Lohrd Snohw

This is the title track from my debut EP. :)
Releasing this EP is a huge milestone for me. With my album release being pushed back to 2022, I thought this was the perfect time to release a smaller body of work, while I finish up the album. By releasing this EP, I get to show you more of my sound and more of who I am as an artist and songwriter, which is all very exciting to me!

Download/Stream here
https://acantha.me/sugarwoman.pbt

https://acanthalang.com/
www.instagram.com/acanthalang/
www.facebook.com/AcanthaLangMusic/
www.tiktok.com/@acanthalang?
twitter.com/acanthalang
www.youtube.com/c/AcanthaLang

[LYRICS]
Sugar Woman, has lost her sweetness
Spoiled by those who picked her
Climate is no good for her seasons, yeah
Some say she’s rotten to the core
With every season, she’s making money
But there’s seems to be no change
Bittersweet they want all her honey
And they think it's all the same

Girl, don’t ya wanna come in from the cold?
Girl, don’t ya want someone real to hold?
There's a place where you can bask in the sun
Ooh yeah, sweet
Ooh my sweet 
Sugar Woman

Sugar Woman, looks for love 
On the corners that know her name 
Ooh, she's flashing like a red light 
No vacancy 
Some say she’s to blame, yeah 
With strange shadows in the moonlight 
Oh oh oh, she seems to disappear 
They pay cheap and want all her honey
And they think it's all the same 

Girl, don’t ya wanna come in from the cold?
Girl, don’t ya want someone real to hold?
There's a place where you can bask in the sun
Sweet, ooh my sweet 
Sugar Woman

(Don’t keep running)
Don’t keep running (Love)
You can find it, love
(Don’t keep running)
You can find it
(You can find it)
Oh, love!


Girl, don’t ya wanna come in from the cold, yeah?
Girl, don’t ya want someone real to hold?
There's a place where you can bask in the sun 
Sweet, ooh my sweet girl


Don’t cha wanna come in from the cold, yeah?
Girl don’t ya want someone real to hold?
There's a place where you can bask in the sun 
Sweet, Sugar Woman
My Sugar Woman, yeah
You can be sweet, so sweet, sweet
You can be sweet, so sweet

Sugar Woman

The second single from Josie Lockhart. Mixed by Chris Coady (Future Islands, Beach House, TV On The Radio)

One Second To Midnight

High Vibrations

I'll Write Your Constellation

Entanglement

Two brothers versus the machines. Clusters of Eyes debuted at Smugglers Festival 2018 and have since been inhabiting coastal Kent’s subterranean network of tunnels, honing their set of gritty electronica and robot-rock.

This latest track features guest vocals from Troy of punk/hardcore band The Long Knives.

Imagery of a dystopian post-Covid, post-Brexit landscape is set to an irrepressible groove - inspired in equal parts by The Fall’s ‘Blindness’ and Death In Vegas’ ‘Aisha’.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/QaII3ePbDtc

This Is Transformation (feat. Troy)

Don't Go

Winner of 2024 Liverpool Songwriting Competition with "The Boy With the Red Hat", taken from "Death to Mortality".

People have said that Jim plays guitar like a drummer. He is. In the mid eighties, he toured the Far East, Europe and Tyneside with near-legendary Geordie club band Foxy, before putting down his sticks, opting for a life of obscurity as graphic designer, husband and dad.

In his late thirties with a mid-life-crises looming, he started writing and recording his songs, self-releasing “Some Songs by Jim Pearson” in his fortieth year.

Suddenly, nothing happened, so he continued, and gradually accumulated a niche following of several well-intentioned virtual people, each possessing an uncanny appreciation of music and lyrics, as well as managing to get a handful of plays on BBC 6 music.

Jim is also singer, guitarist, songwriter with niche NW-UK band Scaredycats, who's debut album "Dumb Animals" was pronounced album of the year by Liverpool Sound and Vision in 2017.

Last year, he was a key collaborator and producer with international lockdown supergroup "Nothing On TV".

According to Jim... "You might not agree, but I think I’m getting better at this. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will never get the global recognition I so clearly deserve, and honestly, I am all the happier for it."

BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson says... “This is the astonishingly prolific Merseyside songwriter Jim Pearson… you never can be sure what kind of project Jim will come up with next, but you can always be sure it’s gonna be pretty darn good...” (The Tom Robinson Show, January 25th 2020)

Songwriter from Northern England
https://jimpearson.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5R96vnb0ABdaZRMLG4XUNf

Scaredycats
https://scaredycatsuk.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/02W2iVwO5b3EIjzspgmS1N

Nothing On TV
https://nothingontv.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/07ADDEerdBir7xBgvdYyeo?si=k65U2tPkQuqbd1WFuPQOyA